griefseeded | October Event Details / Plotting

October Event Details

On the morning of the 21st, a group of magi will be departing from Nyoi-cho for Tsukudo-cho. As such, this will be the first event to span two whole towns. The event will be cooperative in nature, requiring the magi of both towns to work together in order to solve it. In addition to that, the Tsukudo-cho side will be primarily a fourth wall event that will last from the 21st to the 31st.

Side Tsukudo-cho
In-game characters with tickets will be leaving Nyoi-cho by train on the morning of the 21st. When they arrive, they will find a dreary little town with reclusive natives - as well as a brand new type of enemy that they've never seen before.

Arrival of the Fourth Wallers
Fourth wallers will ICly arrive on the morning of the 22nd. They will wake up in houses that are not their own, assigned to families that are not their own. All signs will point to them having lived in this town for a while now - the neighbors know their names, and they apparently are holding jobs or attending classes at the school. However, try as they might, they won't be able to remember anything about their lives in this town.

They do, however, know a couple of things.

At one point, they were offered a wish by a being named Kyuubey in exchange for traveling to another world as its protector.
They became magi as a result.
And as magi, it is their duty to fight beings known as "Wraiths."

Bestiary
Wraiths come in many differing forms, but they have a few traits in common.
1. Their appearance is usually accompanied by wisps of thick, frosty miasma. The more powerful the Wraith, the colder and heavier the miasma accompanying them.
2. Wraiths do not kill people, but they seem to feed off of their emotions. Those who have had all their emotions eaten by Wraiths become soulless, unfeeling husks.
3. Magi who have had at least a portion of their emotions eaten will find that they've lost access to one or more of their powers. In the event that a magi has their powers stolen, they will find that their soul gem has become duller, as if their magical capacity has decreased. In addition to that, Wraiths will be able to use their stolen power against them from that point on.
4. Regular humans cannot see Wraiths.
5. When defeated, Wraiths drop a number of small block-like objects that can be used to purify one's soul gem.

Normal Wraith: the weakest and most common type of Wraith. They have bony, pale bodies that are thin to the point of being skeletal, but their body structure is distinctly humanoid. They wear monks' robes.

These Wraiths fight with laser beams and emit a weak, pixel-like miasma from their bodies. They are very weak and mostly appear in swarms.

Ascetic Wraith: stronger than normal Wraiths and considerably less human. Their bodies burn to the touch. They wield a blazing bronze spear with which they fight magi.

There are usually at least one or two of them in each swarm.

Enlightened Wraith: stronger than Ascetic Wraiths. Attacks by crushing its foes under its block-shaped viscera. When it appears, ground weathers, steel rots, and machines fail. Its considerable miasma also makes the nearby temperature drop drastically.

Its destructive capabilities are immense, but it shows up very rarely.

Moksha Wraith: stronger than Enlightened Wraiths. Its attacks are entirely abstract and incomprehensible, and the spike-like 2D triangles it's weaponized are capable of distorting space. When it appears, everything around it is frozen in an instant; magi alone are able to withstand its cold.

The rarest and most destructive type of Wraith.

Bestiary: Addendum

In addition to the previous categories of Wraiths, there is another undocumented category known as Anamnestic Wraiths. These are Wraiths that have taken on human form, and they come in three types. When their true nature is revealed, their true forms can be seen.

Type A: Wraiths that feed off of the emotions of magi. They are highly manipulative and will use the knowledge at their disposal to emotionally compromise their target. This means that, given access to portions of the target's emotions and memories, they will sift through those memories for ammunition they can make use of. They usually take on the appearance of the person whom they believe will afford them the biggest advantage - dear friends or family members, in most instances.

The more emotions they rob their target of, the duller their target's soul gem becomes.

Type B: Wraiths that feed off of the emotions of magi. Unlike the previous type, they are not entirely malicious. They are programmed to think that human emotion is dangerous and that humans would be better off without their emotions, and they will do their best to convince their targets of this.

Unlike Type As, their form doesn't seem to be specifically tailored to their host. Could it be that they genuinely possess fragments of the memories and feelings of the person whose form they've chosen to borrow?

Type C: Wraiths that have drained a whole spectrum of emotions from one or more magi. They've obtained human hearts and will often have at least some fondness for the magi from whom they've drained emotions from. Their nature is dependent upon the person or persons they obtain their emotions from; a kind and benevolent host will give birth to a more kindly and benevolent Wraith.

It's possible that Type As and Bs may evolve into Type Cs when they've drained sufficient energy from their targets.

Their instincts as Wraiths are still intact, but they undeniably have human hearts.

Gathering Loot
As magi explore the town and defeat Wraiths, they will occasionally stumble onto pieces of loot that contain hints to unlocking the truth behind the town.

Find all the pieces, and maybe something special will happen!

Side Nyoi-cho
Those who did not hop aboard the train will not be left out of the fun, however. The moment the investigation team leaves, the countdown beneath the school reaches zero. Those who go into the dungeon past that point will find that the elevator is now fully operational and will take them to B2F.

The Dungeon
(click on the numbered map areas to reach their corresponding description)

1: The entrance. Can only be reached by taking the elevator from B1F to B2F. A gigantic screen in front of which a SNES controller sits can be found here.

(back to map)

2: The door is locked. A command console is attached to the door, but it appears to be inactive. Once it is successfully activated, the following text appears.

THE ONE SHE SEEKS